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by michael scuffil
Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The remake of Quatermass
Replies: 2
Views: 637

Re: The remake of Quatermass

J.R. wrote:Shame I haven't got BBC 4.
You're missing something. If you haven't got Freeview, all you need is a small satellite dish and a free-to-air digital receiver (don't bother with all the Sky stuff). Costs next to nothing, and reception is great (unless it's snowing hard).
by michael scuffil
Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: beds
Replies: 27
Views: 5560

Re: beds

Our beds were arranged in the dorms by house-number. Are you sure? I thought all houses arranged them in order of seniority, starting at the bed on the right opposite the staircase, and proceeding clockwise round the dorm, with the monitors' beds at each end (plus one in the cubicle). I remember Mi...
by michael scuffil
Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:36 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: beds
Replies: 27
Views: 5560

Re: beds

No John, you're not delirious. That's just how it was. Except on Sundays, when beds were made before breakfast. I too recall that alleged bon mot of Miss Watts, but I suspect it was told of most matrons. Particular attention had to be given to achieving the so-called "hospital corner". I s...
by michael scuffil
Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:10 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: beds
Replies: 27
Views: 5560

Re: beds

They were painted white and had a kind of square slot at the end for your house number Bryan Magee's memoir includes a story about how he had written an obscene limerick to a boy he fancied (who slept in the bed in question) on the back of the house-number card. He had the gross misfortune of havin...
by michael scuffil
Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:05 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: The School Rules
Replies: 105
Views: 37194

Re: The School Rules

Angela Woodford wrote:

No deodorants are to be used".
The one enlightened thing I've ever heard about the Hertford regime. Down with deo's, say I. (And so do my wife and daughters.)
by michael scuffil
Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:22 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: beds
Replies: 27
Views: 5560

beds

I have heard tell that the beds we had in the 60s, and were still in use at least until the mid 70s, which had come from London, have gone. If so, this was an act of vandalism, as they had a fine Zen aesthetic, and moreover were, after you got used to them, very comfortable (the sicker beds, which w...
by michael scuffil
Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:18 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: underwear
Replies: 112
Views: 22125

Re: underwear

I must admit I have not the faintest idea what the modern well-dressed man wears in bed. (Unless I am the modern well-dressed man. In bed perhaps. But otherwise I make no claims to modernity. Perhaps we shoudl launch a survey on this one? CHAZ - some time ago I was inspired to ask fellow Forum memb...
by michael scuffil
Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:39 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: The School Rules
Replies: 105
Views: 37194

Re: The School Rules

The Horsham rule book had some strange things, like "Boys must not practise golf strokes on Big Side". I suppose someone must have done so once, causing danger to life and limb, or maybe the grass, but I can't exactly remember it being a major problem. There was also a rule about where sno...
by michael scuffil
Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:45 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: underwear
Replies: 112
Views: 22125

Re: underwear

We also at Hertford suffered twice weekly changes of underwear. Oh dear. Are you saying this was too many or too few? At Horsham (in the 50s and 60s) it was weekly. The pyjama-cord thing is curious. CH pyjamas (stripes and cords) were what I'd been used to before I went to CH. I carried on with thi...
by michael scuffil
Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:43 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Butch White RIP
Replies: 11
Views: 1862

Re: Butch White RIP

[ Association football was still an informal rather than formal sport when I was there. You're telling me! Norman Fryer, who was in charge of Rugby, used to put up notices headed simply "Football". It meant Rugby, of course. The only soccer I can ever remember playing on grass (i.e. not a...
by michael scuffil
Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:07 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Do any of you.............
Replies: 2
Views: 1640

Re: Do any of you.............

Your description matches that of John Bullard, maths master, junior housemaster of MaB, and school timetabler. Known as "Wop". He died suddenly in mid-term in 1961 (had a funeral in chapel), and his classes were taken over by underemployed First Parting Grecians, who I believe were paid a ...
by michael scuffil
Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:54 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Clive Perdue, RIP
Replies: 10
Views: 2826

Re: Clive Perdue, RIP

John, is there somebody new running the French CHA? I know John patterson stepped down but was wonering if he had been replaced...? The CHA August email newsletter states: Old Blues in France Edward Adams (ThB 1962 – 1968) has put himself forward as a contact to any Old Blues based in France, it ...
by michael scuffil
Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:22 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: French teacher
Replies: 87
Views: 31573

Re: French teacher

Actually the most feared French teacher in our day was A.L.Johnstone, known as Stine, who had a really filthy temper. By the time you got to the Deps it became possible, with effort, to detect a well-hidden sense of humour. He once remarked: "When I'm not sure about a point of French grammar, I...
by michael scuffil
Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:03 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Clive Perdue, RIP
Replies: 10
Views: 2826

Re: Clive Perdue, RIP

jhopgood wrote:Seems that Barnes B produced the export version of Old Blues.
Yes. Clive's contemporary Keith Battarbee lives in Finland.
by michael scuffil
Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:39 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: French teacher
Replies: 87
Views: 31573

Re: French teacher

There was a man called Reggie Dean. Ron Lorimer once told me It was the test of a new master's perceptiveness that he knew at the end of his first year who Reggie Dean actually was. He lived in Horsham and cycled in daily, having his morning coffee at the Massens. Double lessons were always interrup...